Mark Warner: “My colleague very kindly referred to our conversation earlier today when he, as every Member of this Chamber, has taken…”

“My colleague very kindly referred to our conversation earlier today when he, as every Member of this Chamber, has taken time to attend funerals in their respective States for those who lost their lives in the conflicts now ongoing, principally in Afghanistan and Iraq. I mentioned to him a soldier's grave at the Battle of Normandy. It was a British soldier, and he was killed in the invasion. As custom in the British military, the families may put a brief inscription on the tombstones. On this tombstone is the phrase: To the world he was known but as one. To his family he was known as the world. I yield the floor.”